ISBTI Karnataka organised the annual CME at VIMS Bellary on 23-34 February 2013. Sankalp India Foundation was invited to give a talk on "Our Experience With Bombay Blood Group". The CME coincided with the first ever international transfer of Bombay Blood Group organised by the organisation. The CME gave the organisation an opportunity to share with the blood banking community of Karnataka, the work done, the essential learning and the roadmap to take care of Bombay Blood Group need in specific and rare blood groups in general.
We conducted 6 blood donation drives in the month, collecting 748 units of blood.
ITPB
In the first week of Jan, the blood stocks were low in the city. Due to new year's eve, companies were not organizing blood drives. ITPB is one of the organizations whom we can bank upon in such crisis situations. And it came to rescue by organizing blood camp in a blood mobile for the first time.
Though the stories of achievement and growth have their exceptional charm - sometimes the story of mere survival itself looks interesting enough to be shared. Here we share with you the roller coaster ride we had managing the Day Care Centre for thalassemia.
CHENNAI: IIT-Madras scientists have blood on their hands - and nobody is complaining. A team of scientists from the department of engineering design has been successful in creating enough red blood cells from stem cells to be used as 'artificial blood' in people who need transfusion.
Here is how the month of December went about in Sankalp.
Contrasting from the previous month, the month of December saw the city of Bangalore in specific and most blood banks across Karnataka in general suffer from extreme shortage of blood. In general, students were busy with exams and the corporates were busy with the year end. There were very few camps and the shelves dried up quickly. The emphasis was to organise as many drives as possible. However, we must admit that we were not able to organise as many drives as were required.
